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NASA looks for Friday's landing site
Dec 21 2006 10:56PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Faced with some less-than-perfect choices, NASA watched the weather report in three time zones Thursday as it struggled to pick a landing site for space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth.
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NASA looks for Friday's landing site
Dec 21 2006 10:56PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Faced with some less-than-perfect choices, NASA watched the weather report in three time zones Thursday as it struggled to pick a landing site for space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth.
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NASA looks for Friday's landing site
Dec 21 2006 10:56PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Faced with some less-than-perfect choices, NASA watched the weather report in three time zones Thursday as it struggled to pick a landing site for space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth.
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Giant dinosaur bones found in Spain
Dec 21 2006 10:56PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The fossil bones of what may have been Europe's largest animal ever, a new type of dinosaur, have been discovered in Spain. Discovery of the sauropod, estimated to have weighed between 40 and 48 tons, is reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
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Researchers discover fossilized remains
Dec 21 2006 10:56PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The discovery of fossilized remains of a mouse-like animal that lived at least 16 million years ago is the first hard evidence that New Zealand had its own indigenous land mammals, a researcher said Thursday.
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Gorilla on fertility drug gives birth
Dec 21 2006 10:54PM (CT)
BRISTOL, England (AP) - A western lowland gorilla has given birth at a zoo in southwest England after being given a fertility drug that is normally used on humans, zoo officials said Friday.
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Virgin dragon prepares to give birth
Dec 21 2006 7:36PM (CT)
CHESTER, England (AP) - In an evolutionary twist, Flora the Komodo dragon has managed to become pregnant all on her own without any male help. She is carrying seven baby Komodo dragons.
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Study: Batfish protect reef in Australia
Dec 21 2006 7:35PM (CT)
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - When it comes to protecting Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it is hard to beat the batfish. A study by researchers at the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies found that the rare pancake-like white fish with brown stripes was the only one of 27 species that successfully removed the forest of algae that can otherwise overwhelm and kill off the reef.
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Observatory to research black hole areas
Dec 21 2006 7:35PM (CT)
KAMUELA, Hawaii (AP) - A $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow the Big Island's W.M. Keck Observatory to take a closer look at the areas surrounding the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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Scientists rebut Big Easy channel report
Dec 21 2006 7:35PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A group of scientists accused the Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday of endangering the city's future by failing to take steps to immediately close a shipping channel blamed for widespread flooding during Hurricane Katrina.
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Indian, Chinese team to map glacier melt
Dec 21 2006 7:27PM (CT)
NEW DELHI (AP) - A joint Indian-Chinese team plans to chart remote Himalayan glaciers that scientists fear are rapidly melting because of global warming, threatening the great rivers that give life to one of South Asia's most fertile regions.
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